Helen Molesworth Upends the Permanent Hang at MOCA LA
Ruth Asawa spent the summer of 1948 making buttermilk for her teachers, Josef and Anni Albers, in Asheville, North Carolina. She was enrolled at…
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The Spinning “YOLO” Sympathies of Sandra Meigs
An early critique I received as an artist was in jury feedback for an unsuccessful grant application: “why does this work need to be…
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How To Follow Your Own Success: Kristiina Lahde at MKG127
Six months ago, Kristiina Lahde created her own toughest act to follow. Her solo exhibition, Ultra-Parallel, held at the Koffler Centre of the Arts in…
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A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Professional: Joseph Hartman’s Artist Studios
The artist’s studio has long been a beloved subject for art, one nearing art itself. What attracts us to it? What is the quale,…
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All That Is Solid …: Alex McLeod Taps the Cult of the Canadian Sublime and Explodes the Digital
Alex McLeod’s most recent solo exhibition – his first at Division Gallery in Toronto – is aptly titled HONEYMOON, featuring a unique formal marriage…
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A New Level of Anxiety in Derek Liddington
After seeing Derek Liddington’s solo show at aka artist-run in Saskatoon, I immediately went home to reread the first article I wrote on his…
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Slowing Down Perception: “are you experienced?” Tries to Affect the White Cube
Both experienced and inexperienced gallery visitors are familiar with the standardized formula of spectatorship: Each artwork is treated as a discrete, enclosed structure containing…
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The Incurable Distance of Gustave Caillebotte
Gustave Caillebotte has been curiously canonized: first as Impressionist, then as Realist, then as more of a collector than an artist. Gustave Caillebotte: The…
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The Subtle Evolution and Marked Aging of Michael Smith’s “Mike”
Michael Smith belongs to the first wave of artists who made extensive use of mass-media imagery and formats in their work. His conceptually-minded peers…
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From This Deep and Powerful Sculpture Emerged This Mask: Reading Haegue Yang Through Victor Hugo
How the disfigured transfigure, how the formless become heavenly […] this strange spectacle had a transparence of an avatar. – Victor Hugo, The Man Who…
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